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[Sower]

1 hour ago, Marathoner said:

I would say that New Mexico is perhaps the most unusual state I've seen. It's home to the nastiest cacti I've ever encountered: cholla.

Cholla cacti are festooned with fruit pods bristling with thousands of hooked barbs approximately the width of a human hair. Those barbs are coated with a mild phytotoxin which, when one of those wicked barbs bites into the skin, burns like fire.

They're virtually impossible to extract outside of an ER but fortunately, they only burn for a half-hour or so. 

That's why God gave us men the woman, who are tougher and not intimidated by a little ole thorn....    I personally will not have any plant around my home that has a thorn. Period........Years back in the seventies I was stuck in the forehead with a 2" thorn from a century plant on our first older home we bought that I was remodeling. It broke off and had to used pliers to remove. Don't know why here in Texas so many restaurants have ornamental century plants just waiting to zap a customer with a serious thorn unawares. A simple "Keep of the Grass' sign would work fine.

Cholla bud harvest..

The Cholla Bud is considered a delicacy in Texas.

Yes Monica, we also have some strange taste buds here in the states.
I wonder where they find recipes for thorn plants??

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Marathoner]

3 minutes ago, Sower said:

That's why God gave us men the woman, who are tougher and not intimidated by a little ole thorn....    I personally will not have any plant around my home that has a thorn. Period........Years back in the seventies I was stuck in the forehead with a 2" thorn from a century plant on our first older home we bought that I was remodeling. It broke off and had to used pliers to remove. Don't know why here in Texas so many restaurants have ornamental century plants just waiting to zap a customer with a serious thorn unawares. A simple "Keep of the Grass' sign would work fine.

Cholla bud harvest..

The Cholla Bud is considered a delicacy in Texas.

Yes Monica, we also have some strange taste buds here in the states.
I wonder where they find recipes for thorn plants??

 

 

 

 

 

 

I watched a gaggle of goats demolish a cholla tree like the one in that photo you shared. 🤣 

I just stood there looking at them in shock. Those horned varmints are immune! Didn't feel a thing. One of them had a pod stuck on their ear. I heard how goats can and will eat everything, but that was something else.

[one.opinion]

3 minutes ago, Marathoner said:

I heard how goats can and will eat everything, but that was something else.

We lived in Saudi Arabia for several years when I was a child. The local goat herders would literally take their goats to the dump and let them forage for food. Pretty cost-effective! 😂 

[Starise]

I was born and lived until 19 in southern Georgia, south east US, so I can similarly relate to Jayne in Louisiana, that area has lots of snakes, many of them poisonous,plenty of mosquitos and other stinging insects. High humidity.....and people still live there.

Now I live in Lancaster County PA.Rolling green hills, lots of farms. Also plenty of woodland,rivers and streams.Weather here tends to be less hot than out west although we do get a few weeks there in July and Aug where it gets hot.

Not in any hurry to go back down to the deep south.🙂

Edited May 14, 2022 by Starise

[teddyv]

We live in what is called northern British Columbia, but it's closer to geographically the centre of the province by latitude. It's just that there is virtually no one north of us until Whitehorse, Yukon.

[ayin jade]

30 minutes ago, Sower said:

That's why God gave us men the woman, who are tougher and not intimidated by a little ole thorn....    I personally will not have any plant around my home that has a thorn. Period........Years back in the seventies I was stuck in the forehead with a 2" thorn from a century plant on our first older home we bought that I was remodeling. It broke off and had to used pliers to remove. Don't know why here in Texas so many restaurants have ornamental century plants just waiting to zap a customer with a serious thorn unawares. A simple "Keep of the Grass' sign would work fine.

Cholla bud harvest..

The Cholla Bud is considered a delicacy in Texas.

Yes Monica, we also have some strange taste buds here in the states.
I wonder where they find recipes for thorn plants??

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sounds tasty. I have harvested and eaten prickly pear fruit saguaro fruit and mesquite bean pods (as flour).

[OneLight]

I live in Lebanon, New Hampshire, just a little south of the White Mountains.  I use to spend a lot of time climbing the cliffs in the Whites until last year when my health restricted me from being so adventurous.

The first picture is looking down the talus field from the beginning of the climb.

The second picture is of a party next to us, on the other side of the gully.

The third is a picture of Cannon Mountain Cliff.  We climbed the left edge of the dark gully.  Surely not the hardest or longest route, but a lot of fun where we could easily rest and enjoy His creation!

Here is one of me posing half way up the climb.

The Appalachian Trail runs a couple of miles from where I live and heads up through the White Mountains into Maine.  The trail is rugged, but the overlooks and scenery is beautiful

[Sower]

16 minutes ago, ayin jade said:

Sounds tasty. I have harvested and eaten prickly pear fruit saguaro fruit and mesquite bean pods (as flour).

Nopal cactus, also called prickly pear in Texas, is also eaten various ways, Nopalitos common. Livestock love it when thorns burned off.

Not uncommon on grocery shelves here.

 

 

[ayin jade]

5 minutes ago, Sower said:

Nopal cactus, also called prickly pear in Texas, is also eaten various ways, Nopalitos common. Livestock love it when thorns burned off.

Not uncommon on grocery shelves here.

 

 

Oh yes Ive eaten that too but only when others cooked it.

[AnOrangeCat]

I'm from Texas but very poorly suited to all the heat and sunlight. I burn so easily and got a mild case of heat stroke as a kid. Really hoping to go further north eventually.